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Category: education

My hometown’s Tomball High School lost a teacher yesterday, Mrs. Mary W. Roach. She taught for over 40 years at the school. My family was close with Mrs. Roach and had a Thanksgiving dinner with her this past year. I never told her that she is my biggest inspiration as a teacher and educator. I […]

I am rarely out sick. In fact, I once went two consecutive school years without taking a single day off. I am hearty and find prepping for a substitute teacher to be dreadfully boring. So this past weekend, when one of my lovely little ovaries had a ruptured cyst, I took Monday off when I […]

I’m lucky to teach at a New Tech school where I have a class set of laptops, enough for a 1:1 student to computer ratio. I’m also grateful that my school district, Austin ISD, gave every student, from PreK to Grade 12, their own Google email account and server space on “the cloud”. I love […]

It’s always fun to put textbooks on blast. It’s easy, cheap ridicule. Before teaching, I worked for Holt, Rinehart, and Winston as a math copy editor on the high school series my school district now uses. HRW was filled with people who had never taught a day or hadn’t taught a math class in 3 […]